Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-11
PENSION BILL.
The &. 4. Il. to Make q Great Clea,or for
UnlvsrsaI Pensigns.

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Universal Pensions
DIXON, WIS, June 1O-Adiu5ar.
General Gray of the Grand Army Of I'll,
Republic is Dusily engaged in issuing &
all posts in the country an impoeLa n
document il the nature of q depeuden
pension bill, whose passage will be urge
upon the next Congress. It was drafted
By the national pension committee Of t7e
GRAND Army OF the Republic, composed
Of the following members OF the order:
George S. Merrel of Lawrence, Mass.
Louis Wagner, Philadelphia; James Tan
ner, Brooklyn, n. Y; Johu
g. Linehan Of Penacoke, n.
H., and John II. Kountz Of
Toledo, Ohio. The committee was ap-
pointed by Commander in Chief Fair
Child, under resolution Of the national
enCampment.
Section one OF the bill provides that in
considering the pension claims of de-
! pendent parents, the fac and cause Of
death, and the fact that the soldier left no
widow or minor children having been
shown az required by Law, it shall be
necessary only to show by COM
petent and sufficient evidence that
such parent or parents ere or have
been without other means Of support
than their own manual labor or contribu-
lions OF others not legally bound for
their support. It is provided that ell
pensions allowed under this section Of
this act shall comm nee from the dste of
actual dependence. 1t the claim was
filed prior to July l, 1880, and in case of
applications thereafter made the pension
shall commence from the date of filing of
the application in the Pension Office, or
from the date of subsequent dependence.
Section two provides that all persons
who served three months in the military
or naval service of the United States, and
who have been hOnorablY discharged and
are suffering from mental or physical
disability not the result of their own
vicious habits, shall be entitled to re-
Ceive Sl2 per mOnth; that persons who
are now receiving pensions under the
existing laws or whose claims are pend !
ing in the Pension Office may receive the |
benefits OF this act; that no person shall |
receive more than one pension for the |
same PERIOD and rank N service shall not |
be considered.
Section provides that if any invalid |
pensiOner has died or shall hereafter die, |
leaving widow, minor child or children
under eighteen years of age, or in case
there be no widow or minor child or chill
dren dependent upon mother or father,
such widow, minor child or children or
mother or father shall be placed upon the
pension roll st rates established by law
Tor widows, minor children and parents
without regard to the cause of death of
such pensioner, provided that said widow
vas married to the deceased pensioner
orior to the passage of this act; that the
Increase of pensions for minor
children shall be at the rate
If So per month instead
If 50 per month SIS now provided by law, !
nd in case the minor child is insane, idi-
tic or otherwise helpless the pension
hail continue during the life of said child 6
II during the period OF such disability.
Section imposes g fine Of $500 or i'm S
risoDment st hard labor not exceeding I
NO years, or both in the discretion of
ne court, on SCENTS or attorneys accent
lg greater fees than $40, payable only I
pom the order of the Commissioner OF L
ensions by pension agents making pay r
tents of pensions allowed. C